Sweden

Guy Richards Smit needs $25K to finish Grossmalerman!, the sitcom about a sweaty, successful artist who paints vaginas and is haunted by Basquiat’s ghost. This season features Jibz Cameron, AKA Dynasty Handbag. [Kickstarter]

Sweden has made a catchy, bizarre sing-along music video for children that celebrates genitals. Even old lady vaginas are “elegant.” [Jezebel]

An international round up of how artists get paid, by country. [The Guardian]

In an unattributed piece for artnet News that reads like a reblog of a story that ran in the New York Times this weekend, the author (Twitter presumes it’s Ben Genocchio) complains that the Brant Foundation can be given tax breaks for a museum that isn’t open to the public all-year long, and which has charitable activities including visits by Larry Gagosian. Well, it might not be fair, but it’s legal. [artnet News]

Fuck yeah, one of the first reviews I’ve enjoyed reading this year. Artist Lise Haller Baggesen, author of “Mothernism,” a pro-feminism, science fiction, and disco -ism that seeks to “locate the mother-shaped hole in contemporary art and discourse,” writes about visiting Olafur Eliasson’s “Riverbed” at the Louisiana Museum of Art in Denmark. Sometimes she’s poetic—”And when they were up they were up, and when they were down they were down, and when they were halfway up they were neither up nor down.”—but overall, Baggesen’s a good observer. At times imperfect, the essay is still more fun to read than most Artforum-style reviews. GOOD JOB. [Bad at Sports]

Love is an action. A thoughtful and touching account of what happened to the author when she answered psychologist Arthur Aron’s 36 questions with a potential partner. [The New York Times]

Debate over the new Charlie Hebdo cover, to be released tomorrow, a picture of Mohammed crying holding up a sign saying “All is forgiven.” @JulieHarden speculates that Mohammed would be crying knowing what happened because Mohammed is peaceful. [Twitter]

Artist Clayton Cubitt made videos of sexy women reading while getting stimulated under the table with a vibrator. Not fantastic art, but looks like a fun project! The videos went viral. Of course they did. [Clayton Cubitt via artnet News]

A montage of Satanic messages and sex hidden in Disney movies, to what sounds like an unfunny, crazy Bill Hicks rant. This comes with a ***huge*** disclaimer, but the montage is kinda convincing. [Please Kill Me]

Four men attempt to wrestle a bear. Lesson learned? Bears are great wrestlers. [YouTube]

Just what we needed—another art fair. Independent Projects opens November 6, in just over a week. It’s held in the old Dia building, site of the Independent fair held in the spring. Expect solo booths from a motley bunch of dealers ranging from Bushwick’s’ finest to Upper East Side mainstays like Gagosian. [Independent Projects]

If you care about other people’s personal lives, the Internet has a story for you! Famous CBC host Jian Ghomeshi claims he was fired because of his private BDSM lifestyle. Is this the next level of discrimination? Add a vengeful ex-girlfriend to the mix and we have 50 Shades of Grey meets Gone Girl. [Facebook]

Look, we don’t know what happened, really. However, according to the Toronto Star, three women 20 years his junior have come forward over the last few months claiming that Ghomeshi forced them to engage in nonconsensual, violent sex. [Toronto Star]

A lesson in public shaming (and one of our favorite reads from over the weekend): Monica Lewinsky pens an insightful essay that brings up an important question. Where were all the feminists when she was dragged out in front of the press? [Vanity Fair]

According to OkCupid, people in Montana, Oregon, and Wisconsin take fewer showers than anyone else using the dating site. [Slate]

What is hipster photography? Marco Bohr provides a fascinating and detailed description. Typically, the genre depicts people who look happy and carefree and are often joined by others who look the same. These people are young, good looking, and often white. They are almost never in suits. Perhaps most interesting, though, is that Bohr observes a lack of class identifiers in these pictures, positing that what these images really project is class mobility through the knowledge of what’s “cool.” Naturally, these images are meant to be shared. [Visual Culture Blog]

The University of Texas at Dallas is investing in a $17 million art history institute emphasizing data analysis. [Dallas Morning News]

In Sweden, artists who exhibit in state-run museums must be paid a stipend. That’s the rule, but plenty of institutions have been evading payment. [The Art Newspaper]

The Conscientious photo portfolio competition 2014 deadline closes October 31st. This is a competition aimed at emerging photographers and offers an interview on the site. [CPH]

If you care about SHOCKING art blurbs, here’s one to start off your week: artist prints a self-portrait from a “robotic” printer using his own blood as ink. [CNET]

If Google gets data whenever we brush our teeth, how can we opt out of this data “sharing economy”? Not easily. [Cryptome]

Science says that “evidence” suggests that women with bigger hips are more likely to have one-night stands than their smaller hipped friends. Sure, if “Science” says so. [Springer Link via The New Inquiry]

In this masterfully written (yes, I mean it) long-form report, we find that a hermit living off the woods in Maine since 1986 lived alone in order to retain his humanity. Sounds straight outta a Herzog film. [GQ]

There’s some art news today: Mass MoCA will be expanding its North Adams campus, thanks in part to a $1.4 billion capital facilities bond bill signed by Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick. $25.4 million of that bill has been set aside for Mass MoCA. [The New York Times]

On October 24, you can learn how to draw ’em all! Okay, you’ll be able to learn how to draw some of those pokes (like Charizard, Oshawott, and Fletchling) when Nintendo launches Pokémon Art Academy for the 3DS. [GameSpot]

Sweden: where you can go to prison for making racist artworks. [The Guardian]

For $65,000—or for an “interesting car as partial payment , porsche cabriolet, Bentley etc.”—you can be the new owner of a John Groth drawing. On Craigslist, of course. [Craigslist]

What does a former art thief do for a living nowadays? An art thief on his past as a “knocker.” [Pacific Standard]

The National Endowment for the Arts launches an ambitious new initiative. The Met raked it in for New York this summer. A beneficiary of copyright laws applauds efforts to undermine them. Andy Warhol’s eminent star quality remains high, unexplained.

Sweden Has a New Gender-Free Preschool – In keeping with Sweden’s rep as the most evolved country ever, a preschool there is attempting to eliminate gender bias in the classroom by not using the words “him” or “her.”